Eye of Wade

However, Shimizu was not worried about impurities mixing in. After all, the physical properties of Vibranium and Uru metal were right there. Once they cooled, all he needed to do was temper them again at a lower temperature than before to remove the impurities without causing any changes.

The two molds were sent into a glass chamber together, where professional equipment cooled and quenched them.

At the same time, Shimizu took out various materials from a nearby table and began preparing for the next step.

Money could make even ghosts grind grain. With Shimizu’s current wealth and social standing, he could buy nearly every material on the planet. Building a wall like Bill Gates’s, containing every element in the world, would not be difficult for him either.

The real trouble was materials that did not exist on Earth.

Some items also required different substances to be synthesized, infused with energy, or subjected to certain occult rituals and granted symbolic meaning before they could gain supernatural properties.

Fortunately, Kamar-Taj had accumulated resources for centuries. Facing invasions from all kinds of worlds, its mages were also the sort who could casually open portals and wander everywhere. Their stockpiles of all sorts of materials were considerable and basically met Shimizu’s needs.

It was just rather troublesome to obtain them.

For things other mages were willing to trade, Shimizu used the resources at his disposal to exchange for them. For whatever he could not gather, he could only spend the past few months helping Kamar-Taj’s mages handle matters involving other dimensions and the magical side—such as the previous demon invasion, or dark wizards.

Shimizu liked the latter situation best, because those dark wizards acted without scruples. They liked using other people’s blood, souls, and the like in place of paying the price for their own spells, so they often had quite a few good things on hand.

He worked intensely for Ancient One for several months. During his busiest stretch, Shimizu even left matters at the company to his Shadow Clones, working so hard that Mordo, Wong, and the other mages were astonished.

Fortunately, all that effort finally paid off. Shimizu had gathered enough materials and exchanged for a blueprint.

A blueprint for forging the Eye of Agamotto.

There were many answers to how one could efficiently use the Infinity Stones, such as the Infinity Gauntlet or the Kree Warhammer.

Since Shimizu intended to imitate the Eye of Agamotto and forge a magical artifact of his own, its form would naturally be broadly similar.

A small sphere capable of enclosing the Mind Stone and combining with magic to unleash its power.

Its magical framework largely copied the Eye of Agamotto, but because the two stones had different functions, the magic within the framework also differed.

Shimizu had not only studied large amounts of relevant material in Kamar-Taj, but had also dismantled the Mind Stone Scepter and carefully examined its energy circuits again and again. In the end, he used the System Panel to design over a hundred versions himself before forging one that suited him reasonably well.

Without the System Panel, Shimizu would not have had over a hundred sets of materials to waste on trial and error.

"Pssh…"

Freezing vapor sprayed from the top of the glass cabinet, cold-quenching the molds and the completed products within once more.

Crack!

The heat-resistant ceramic molds were smashed apart, revealing the metal creations inside.

A hollow metal sphere split into two halves, two matching components, and a thin blade roughly eighty centimeters long.

The end of the blade was raised and also had several hollow sections.

Seeing this, Shimizu first brought over a sword body that had long since been forged from Titanium Gold Alloy, then combined it with the Vibranium blade to assemble a new longsword.

With this thing, he would basically have the ability to break through any defense.

Next was this "Eye of Wade."

Compared to the Time Stone, the Mind Stone was actually more suitable for the forging method used for the Eye of Agamotto.

Just look at the Eye of Agamotto’s functions.

Even without the Time Stone, the Eye of Agamotto was still a top-tier divine artifact.

Seeing through disguises, dispelling illusions, summoning images of past events, magical tracking, energy beams, all-seeing power, assisting with spellcasting…

Some of those functions were related to time, but quite a few were also related to the mind.

Compared to elusive time, the will of the mind was equally intangible, but far more intuitive to mages, and they had studied it much more extensively than time.

Shimizu had removed the Uru metal at the top of the Mind Stone Scepter, which connected to the stone, to forge the Eye of Wade. It had now been replaced with 3D-printed material.

Shimizu directly pried the stone off with his hand.

Directly touching an Infinity Stone carried risks, but that depended on the stone, the person, and the circumstances.

The Power Stone was among the more violent Infinity Stones. Touching it directly without a medium could easily kill someone. Yet Jane Foster, the God of Thunder’s girlfriend, had not immediately died after directly coming into contact with the Reality Stone in its Aether particle form. She had merely been slowly dying.

The Mind Stone was much gentler than the Power Stone and the Reality Stone.

Shimizu’s body was not weak after Chakra reinforcement, either.

Besides, he was not truly touching the Mind Stone directly yet.

The blue stone on the scepter was actually the Mind Stone container.

Like the Tesseract, it was a container created by using the stone’s own power.

In this universe, the Mind Stone was not blue, but yellow.

A transparent Chakra wind blade formed between Shimizu’s fingers, precisely cutting into the egg-sized blue stone.

The stone’s color shifted from blue to yellow from the outside inward. What finally appeared in Shimizu’s hand was an irregular yellow gem around two and a half centimeters long.

This was the Mind Stone.

With the Mind Stone in hand, Shimizu could not help closing his eyes slightly. He extended his mental perception into it, sensing the vast, boundless, profoundly mysterious spiritual power within, while using his body and Chakra to withstand the backlash brought by that power.

At that moment, Shimizu suddenly felt as though he could do anything.

He knew this was merely an illusion caused by his sudden surge in power.

His body and mind had both been strengthened to an extreme degree by the Mind Stone, and his confidence rose with them.

It was as though he could unleash however much power he believed he could unleash.

The premise was that his body could withstand that power and that his mental conviction could control it—the latter being the most crucial factor.

This was a state far deeper than the Perfect Mind Flow he had entered when using the scepter. With a mere thought, he could perfectly command everything about himself.

In this state, he could even detect an exceedingly subtle trace of disharmony within his own Chakra.

It would not affect his body or his use of ninjutsu, but there was still that faint discordance.

Was this the will left within Chakra by that unknown powerhouse?

That person might have been Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths, or perhaps the Chakra progenitor even older than him and Kaguya.

But if he could detect that trace of disharmony in this state, it meant that he could rely on the Mind Stone’s power to gradually dissolve that will away.

Though that would likely require maintaining this state for a very long time.

With his Chakra-enhanced body and his current Mental Power, he could probably maintain this state for around a day. If he wanted to unleash greater power, that duration would shorten to a certain extent.

Still, this had only been achieved through external power. It was not strength that truly belonged to him.

This was the stone’s power. How much he could wield, and how much he could truly gain from it, depended on what he did next.

Shimizu picked up the two hollow spheres made of Uru metal, placed the Mind Stone inside them, twisted them together, then installed the matching components at the side. After that, he set it on the table and immersed it in a box filled with blood.

The blood inside belonged to Shimizu himself, and it had been filtered and concentrated.

He possessed Chakra, and his blood contained abundant energy, comparable to that of certain supernatural races. It was good spellcasting material, and using it here could also improve the compatibility between him as the creator and the Eye of Wade.

It was also available in large quantities. As long as he replenished his blood, it could practically be considered an unlimited supply.

Other mages did not even have that option.

Supernatural Blood, Adamantium, and Mithril were the three supernatural materials Shimizu could obtain most easily.

Gold and silver themselves held certain meanings in occultism. Adamantium and Mithril were refined from substances like gold and silver through magical means. With Shimizu’s wealth, they were fairly easy to acquire.

Other materials were much harder to get, such as Dragon scales.

Where would Earth even get dragons? Even if they existed, Shimizu did not know where to find them. Kamar-Taj did have a small amount in storage, though. The scales containing the most energy and of the finest quality came from Kunlun Shou Lao.

Most of these magical materials were hard in texture and contained special energy. They could be used to cast particular spells or conduct rituals.

Of course, the most important among them was Uru metal.

This was also a time-consuming and labor-intensive undertaking. Otherwise, Shimizu would not have told George not to let anyone disturb him for three days.

Yet the actual progress went far more smoothly than Shimizu had expected.

On the evening of the third day.

As the setting sun slowly sank beyond the horizon, Shimizu stopped with a hint of fatigue and looked at the silver sphere before him.

Uru metal formed the most important framework within it, supporting the Mind Stone at its core. Its exterior was silver-white and engraved with several secret magical arrays drawn in Adamantium and a small amount of Vibranium. Only by opening it layer by layer would the Mind Stone be revealed.

The two sides of the outer shell were hollowed out, intended for connecting the chain.

The Eye of Wade had been forged in imitation of the Eye of Agamotto. Its functions would differ, but its method of use would be more or less the same. Shimizu also intended to wear it as a pendant around his neck.

As for the chain, Shimizu made it from reinforced Mithril silk thread and Titanium Gold Alloy. The former ensured magical power transmission, while the latter ensured strength.

Click!

The clasp snapped shut, and the final step was complete.

Shimizu reached out and put it around his neck, then formed a hand seal and directed it at the Eye of Wade.

As the magical array rotated, the front of the Eye of Wade slowly opened.

Amid a yellow glow, the true form of the Mind Stone deep within the Eye of Wade was revealed once more.

This state was much better than before.

More than ninety percent of the burden was borne by the Eye of Wade.

Beyond the Mind Stone’s basic abilities of Perfect Mind Flow, enhanced Mental Power, and increased Psychic Ability, the Eye of Wade could also use the Mind Stone’s energy to achieve many functions.

Protection, altering, controlling, or reading minds, creating illusions, seeing through all illusions, invading and controlling thoughts, implanting memories, firing energy waves, and more.

In Shimizu’s view, the Eye of Wade could be considered an upgraded Genjutsu-type Mangekyō Sharingan, except without Susanoo.

Its powerful Genjutsu and hypnosis abilities had a ceiling that would be no worse than Tsukuyomi’s. Like Kotoamatsukami, it could also alter and control the minds of others.

Not only did he not need to worry about running out of energy like with the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, it even contained nearly limitless energy of exceptionally high quality, without any negative effects.

And like Agamotto and Howard Stark, he could study the stone to gain new knowledge and develop other forms of magic and technology.

"Perfect."

Looking at the Eye of Wade hanging around his neck and giving off a soft yellow glow, a trace of delight appeared on Shimizu’s tired face.

Just then, one of Shimizu’s pockets suddenly twitched.

A long, densely woven white mesh pouch crawled out of his pocket on its own corners like legs, sending a faint mental fluctuation toward Shimizu.

Desire. Enhancement.

Seeing this, Shimizu condensed a small amount of Chakra on his fingertip and injected it into the Net of Zoroaster.

The latter wrapped itself around Shimizu’s finger and swiftly drained that bit of Chakra. Then it extended one corner, pointing at the Eye of Wade around Shimizu’s neck as though it had a hand.

"What do you want?"

Shimizu looked at the thin strands extending from the mesh pouch, which had woven themselves into a rope shaped like the chain of the Eye of Wade, and understanding dawned on him.

Several Chakra Threads shot from Shimizu’s fingertips and merged into the rope, guiding it through the gaps in the Mithril chain before connecting it to both ends of the Eye of Wade, allowing it to receive the stone’s energy and be strengthened alongside it.

Chakra was certainly good, but the energy contained within the Infinity Stones was clearly of a higher quality and could more effectively improve the quality of magical artifacts.

After finishing the most important Eye of Wade, Shimizu mounted the longsword with its Vibranium blade onto Electric Light II.

He then learned from Watos that, aside from two Blizzard Entertainment game designers being harshly scolded by Ancient One—who was temporarily serving as the company’s senior consultant—and former chief executive Kao Dick being bagged and beaten up in an alley on his way to a banquet, nothing else had happened these past two days.

Seeing that, Shimizu did not bother with anything else. He merely told George to have the chef team prepare a lavish dinner to reward himself, then returned to his room and fell deeply asleep without even calling for any female models.

So sleepy… zzz.

By the way, how did you know I snatched eight hundred gold coins in Winter Fireworks last night?